Actress Molly Ringwald fears her film and TV roles have helped glamorize teen pregnancy. The “Pretty in Pink” star famously played a a high school senior who falls pregnant in 1988′s “For Keeps?,” and …

The “Pretty in Pink” star famously played a a high school senior who falls pregnant in 1988′s “For Keeps?,” and recently played Shailene Woodley’s onscreen mother in TV series “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” about a youngster who tries to cope with her unexpected baby news.

Ringwald admits the projects were not as gritty and realistic as she had hoped, and fears they may have unintentionally encouraged young girls to start a family prematurely.

She tells New York Magazine, “I feel like… (‘For Keeps?’) glamorized teen pregnancy. And the original script that I’d agreed to do did not. But whenever you do a movie, whenever you do anything, it’s a collaborative effort, and sometimes the script that you agree to do turns into something else. And I was pretty much a teenager at the time, and it was this runaway train that I didn’t know how to stop. And so I was very unhappy about that, and I felt like the movie was, I won’t say unfairly criticized, because I agreed. I really did feel like it glamorized teen pregnancy.

“And then I did this series (‘The Secret Life of the American Teenager’), and in the beginning I didn’t feel like the series glamorized teen pregnancy, but then I felt like it ended up doing the same thing. So I feel like I have yet to be involved in a project that shows what it’s really like (to be a teen mother). They (producers) always seem to end up glamorizing it. And I guess when you have a movie star playing the teenager, it’s a temptation to make them look like a young movie star – I did it, and then Shailene. But, yeah, I feel like, unfortunately, both of them do kind of glamorize teen pregnancy.”

Alanis Morissette and Gisele Bundchen are among the stars who have opened up about their birthing experiences for Ricki Lake’s new documentary.

The singer and her husband, MC Souleye, became proud parents to son Ever on Christmas Day, while Brazilian model Gisele welcomed baby Benjamin in 2009.

Both stars, along with actress Molly Ringwald, who gave birth to twins in 2009, will detail their labor for Lake on her new show, “More Business of Being Born,” which debuts online next month.

Lake tells iVillage.com, “Gisele talks about her water home birth. The C-section rate in Brazil is very high, so she is totally going against the grain. She was incredibly articulate and beyond gorgeous.

“We filmed Alanis Morissette twice: Before she had her baby and after. Molly’s story is incredible. She had a twin delivery at an advanced age and the second was a footling breech vaginal delivery, which is almost unheard of today because doctors aren’t taught to do that. They go usually right to the C-section.”

And there could be one more star guest making an appearance on the series.

Lake adds, “I think we’re going to interview Pink. Of course she’s a busy new mom but we’re trying to work it out.”

Pink became a mother last month after giving birth to daughter Willow Sage.

FayesVision/WENN.com Actress Molly Ringwald has no idea where her love interest in beloved coming-of-age John Hughes movie “Sixteen Candles” is because she hasn’t spoken to him for years. The actress …

Actress Molly Ringwald has no idea where her love interest in beloved coming-of-age John Hughes movie “Sixteen Candles” is because she hasn’t spoken to him for years.

The actress shot to fame in the teen romantic drama opposite Michael Shoeffling, but she has lost contact with him over the years.

And a week after telling film students at the University of Southern California the actor wasn’t her first choice to play love interest Jake Ryan — that honor fell to Viggo Mortensen after the two smooched in rehearsals — she now admits she has no idea what became of Shoeffling.

Appearing on “Access Hollywood Live” on Tuesday, she said, “I think he quit show business and the last I heard he was a carpenter and he has a family but that’s just Wikipedia.”

And it appears Ringwald knew little about her “Sixteen Candles” love interest while the couple was making the 1984 movie when TV presenter Billy Bush asked her if she knew how old Shoeffling was when he played an 18-year-old in the Hughes film, she appeared surprised when he revealed he was 24.

Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images The casts of cult John Hughes films “Pretty in Pink” and “The Breakfast Club” could have been completely different if the late writer/director had his way, according …

The casts of cult John Hughes films “Pretty in Pink” and “The Breakfast Club” could have been completely different if the late writer/director had his way, according to his star Molly Ringwald.

The actress attended a Hughes film class at the University of Southern California last week and let slip that the stars of the two movies weren’t necessarily her mentor’s first choice.

She told students her break-out role in Hughes’ “Sixteen Candles” cost John and Joan Cusack leading roles in “The Breakfast Club” – the siblings were slated to play bad boy Bender and outcast Allison in the school detention movie, but studio bosses wanted to shoot “Sixteen Candles” first, and the Cusacks were forced to bow out of the project.

According to EW.com, Ringwald explained, “Universal said ‘We want to do this one first. We feel like it’s much more commercial’, which I think is funny because, well, I love ‘Sixteen Candles,’ but I think ‘Breakfast Club’ is a more interesting screenplay.”

The actress feels Hughes never settled with the eventual choice of ‘method actor’ Judd Nelson as Bender – and their relationship was frosty at times, particularly when Nelson goaded her in rehearsals.

She said, “In my head, he was doing an acting thing. It didn’t bother me but it bothered John a lot… I don’t remember specifics about what he said, but he made some crack about Stevie Wonder and my father is blind. All of the sudden I turned and looked at John and his face was like stone.

“The rehearsal ended early and all of a sudden it blew up. I don’t know what happened, but I’d heard he told Judd he was ready to put him on a plane.”

Ringwald also revealed Rick Moranis was the first choice to play janitor Carl, but studio heads persuaded Hughes to use John Kapelos instead: “He decided it would be funnier if the janitor was a Russian immigrant.

“He (Moranis) came and filmed for two days, and Rick Moranis was hilarious, but it just did not belong in this movie at all.”

And even Jon Cryer’s iconic role as Phil ‘Duckie’ Dale in “Pretty in Pink” wasn’t set in stone as pre-production on the 1980s film got underway – Michael J. Fox and Robert Downey, Jr. were both in the mix to play the character.

Fox dropped out to replace Eric Stoltz in “Back to the Future” and Ringwald admitted she had a lot of fun with Downey, Jr.

She recalled, “I remember Robert came in with a jacket decorated with Pez dispensers. He was just so funny and charming and charismatic, and we had this sort of sexual charisma together.”

Former child star Molly Ringwald is convinced her decision to develop “interests outside Hollywood” saved her life because it stopped her falling into drug addiction.

Ringwald landed her first TV role at the age of 11 in sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes” and went on to find fame in John Hughes’ 1984 movie “Sixteen Candles,” which propelled her into the spotlight.

She became known as one of the “Brat Pack” in the 1980s after appearing in a string of teen dramas, but unlike many of her co-stars, Ringwald avoided the temptations of the party circuit and never suffered from drug or alcohol addiction.

The actress, now a 42-year-old mother of three, insists she was too young to follow her older actor friends into bars as a teenager and is adamant her decision to focus on her hobbies instead “saved her life.”

She tells Britain’s Grazia magazine, “Unlike most of the others (members of the Brat Pack), I was the same age as my characters. So when they were out carousing, I couldn’t get into a bar.

“I was encouraged to develop interests outside Hollywood and I think it saved my life. I knew that if I got involved with drugs it would never stop. I had self-preservation.”

And Ringwald admits she feels sorry for young stars in Hollywood today because they seem unable to avoid the temptations of the industry.

She adds, “I feel badly for teenage stars these days. They seem to get burned out so quickly.”

Actress Molly Ringwald insists the ‘Brat Pack’ reunion at Sunday’s Oscars was easy to organize, because the stars get together every few years.

“The Breakfast Club” star joined the likes of Matthew Broderick, Macauley Culkin and Ally Sheedy for an Academy Awards tribute to late filmmaker John Hughes, who turned them all into teenage household names — and she reveals the reunion was just old friends getting together again.

She tells WENN, “We had all seen each other about five years ago when we were all together for the MTV tribute to John. We run into each other every so often. We all have very different lives and careers but we usually get together at least every couple of years for one reason or another.

“I just hope next time it will be for a happier occasion.”

But she admits it was wonderful to get the chance to honor Hughes at the Oscars: “It was very emotional. It was a wonderful tribute. I was very happy to be a part of it.”

Actress Molly Ringwald is preparing for double trouble — she’s expecting twins. The “Breakfast Club” star, 40, has announced she is pregnant with a boy and a girl, according to People.com. The babies …